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...racist taunting of Agent Donald Rochon was limited to the bureau's Omaha and Chicago offices, but the domestic surveillance was nationwide, involving 52 of the FBI's 59 field offices. The investigation started in 1981 as a probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an organization sympathetic to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. It soon grew much broader. Some 1,200 pages of FBI documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a lawyers' group critical of Administration policy. The documents show that the investigation eventually touched...
...court has until now given only advisory opinions. While the trial deals solely with Honduras, the ruling is expected to be cited as a precedent in future cases and may serve as a model of international law. Compared with the record of abuses in such countries as El Salvador and Paraguay, the number of disappearances in Honduras is relatively small. But the histories of the four who vanished there satisfied the OAS's requirements for hearing such cases, including that the petitioners must have exhausted all other avenues of recourse. Moreover, Honduras is one of the few countries that accept...
...SALVADOR, El Salvador--A military court said yesterday the massacre of 13 people at two outdoor cafes in 1985 was a political act and ordered three suspects freed under an amnesty. Six of the victims were Americans...
...wearing Salvadoran army uniforms mowed people down with automatic weapons June 19, 1985, in the "Pink Zone," a strip of trendy restaurants and clubs in San Salvador. Among the dead were four Marine guards from the U.S. Embassy, dressed in civilian clothes...
Serrano's initial decision was strongly criticized by the State Department. Congress approved a measure that calls for withholding 10 percent of appropriated economic support aid for EI Salvador if the suspects are released...